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Question: Prebiotic Ingredients in Face Creams (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for some new face creams for combination skin and found something that didn't make sense to me. Anyone want to ELI5 why prebiotics are a positive thing for skin creams? I've seen several products advertising it. But doesn't prebiotic just mean it's something that bacteria likes to eat? So, in a skin cream that seems like it would promote bacterial growth, which I get why that combined with probiotics can be good for digestion, but can't get why it's a plus and not a minus for skin creams, especially in areas of the skin like the face that tend to gather a lot of bad bacteria.

Anyway, just trying to decide if it's just marketing nonsense, there's an actual benefit, or as it seems with my initial reaction, that it's actually a negative thing that would potentially promote acne/rosacea.

Also, feel free to interject any recommendations on good ingredients/products for aging, combination skin, but not the primary reason for the post.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah definitely makes sense to me in stomach and vagina and similar areas. Just wasn't sure if in was missing something on the face. Maybe in combination with something that was probiotic I guess, but I don't see any of that. So prebiotic without probiotic treatment seems risky.